Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum it should have good winter

it should have good winter hardiness

despite its typical painted fern leaf appearance

purplish pink flowers (RHS 62B)

Starting in mid-May (NC)

The thick leaves make a durable clump topped in summer by stalks of light lavender flowers

Liatris resinosa American Voices Erysimum it should have good winterLiatris resinosa is a rarely cultivated blazing star, naturally found from Delaware southwest to Louisiana, where it grows in seeps, bogs, and wet savannas, often with Sarracenias. Although lumped for several decades with Liatris spicata, it has been re elevated back to species status. The tops of the thin, 20" tall spikes, which are clothed with needle thin green leaves, are adorned, starting in mid summer with light purple flowers held in